the Britl/Jj Species cf Mculha. jp» 



This appears to me a very diftina: fpecies, conflant in the broad 

 heart-fhaped form of its leaves, orange-like fcent, and invariable 

 fmoothnefs of the whole plant, even the teeth of the calyx; In the 

 form of that part it moft nearly approaches' to M piperha. Mr. Sole 

 confiders it as conftituting one fpecres with Dillenius'8 Mentha Si- 

 fymbrium difla hirfuta, glomerulis ac foliis minoribus ac rotundiori- 

 bus, RailSyn. ed. 3. 233. /. 10,/. i ; and Morifon feems to have been of 

 a fimilar opinion, from the hairy figure he has annexed to his pro-. 

 per fmooth one. I have not obferved a fpecimen of Dillenius's plant 

 in any herbarium ; but his defcription, notwith (landing the orange 

 fcent, feems to exprefs a variety of M. hirfuta^ to which his figure 

 unqueftionably belongs ; and from the place of growth it fhould 

 feem likely that Merrett's M. balfamita vel latifolia odorata might 

 be the fame with that ; yet the epithet latifolia feems rather more 

 proper for our plant than that of Dillenius. However this may be, 

 I am certain M. odorata can never be a variety of hirfuta ; neither is it 

 the aquatica of Linnseus, though fome part of his defcription agrees 

 with it. His expreflion « planta non hirta" feems peculiarly ex- 

 preflive of it, but the ftamina being conftantly fhorter than the 

 corolla has always been an objeaion. What his aquatica really is 

 will be explained hereafter. 



6. Mentha hirfuta. 



Hairy Water Mint.. 



M. fpicis capitatis, foliis petiolatis ovatis, calyce undique hirfuto, 

 pedicellis retrorfum hifpidis. 



«, Mentha hirfuta. Linn. Mant. 81. With, 522. Hudf. ed. 1. 223. 

 Engl. Bot. t. 4^7. Hull. 127. 

 Vol. V. C c M. aqua- 



